Reviews of Following My Toes
 
Reviewed by Penny
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.com/followingmytoes_penny.html
June 2006
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Faith Emerson is heart broken when her
boyfriend of two years dumps her for her best
friend. So when her good friend Carolyn
suggests she move to Minneapolis, Faith sees
it as a chance for a new start. But things don’t
always go as one plans. She is forced to deal
with a stripper and phone sex operator room-
mate, a jealous ex-girlfriend of a man she
hardly knows, although admits she would like
to get to know better, a stalker, and a sister
that blows into town and invites herself to
stay.
Get ready to giggle! Author Ms. Osterkamp
has penned a tale that is pure delight and will
touch the reader on many emotional levels.
Characters are multidimensional and well
formed and will worm their way into the reader’
s heart. Faith is a high school teacher but
when she is unable to find a job teaching
takes a temporary job in a coffee shop. This
reader couldn’t help but laugh when poor Faith
ended up on her tushy after being tripped by
a customer from heck who is also a jealous
witch, Glenn (yes, Glenn is a girl in this tale).
Glenn is one of those characters the reader will
love to hate!  
Faith also has to come to grips with the
betrayal of two very important people in her
life. This aspect of the book touched this
reader. Ms Osterkamp wrote with realism that
you don’t often times find in fictional literature.
Kudos to the author for this believable look
into a woman scorned who is trying to move
on in her life.
FOLLOWING MY TOES is about a young
woman who no one believes has psychic
ability. When something good is about to
happen Faith’s toes itch. Readers won’t need
to rely on Faith’s toes to know that
FOLLOWING MY TOES is a wonderful read that
will be enjoyed by all chick lit, or women’s
fiction lovers out there.
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Reviewed by Jennifer Murray Somerset
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llowing_My_Toes.html
December, 2006
This is a story about a woman, Faith
Emerson, who finds herself dumped by her
boyfriend of two years for her best friend.
Her friend Carolyn suggests that she make
a change and move to the “big city”. Faith
decides that an adventure is what she
needs to shake up her life. Enter a case of
clouded perception of personalities, a
screwball chain of events that is just
farfetched enough to make you believe it
could really happen, a psychic ability that
Faith feels in her toes, a romance and our
main character finding out she can stand on
her own, and you have what has become
the romance novel of the twenty-first
century.
Laurel Osterkamp gives each of her
characters, from the main to the peripheral
characters that we might only see once, a
well-rounded identity. Unfortunately you do
not see that much attention to detail in the
entire environment of a story all that often.
To me, that just makes the story more
“real” and easier to get lost in and what I
consider the real joy of a book. Now some
of the screwball events were a little too
much for me and the oblivion to the world
around her that Faith seemed to be in at all
times was bit trying to me. As the reader
you could see things about to happen that
Faith seemed totally oblivious to until she
was almost in over her head and she had to
be rescued by the object of her love/hate
desire. Yet I suppose if you didn’t have
that, then you wouldn’t have forward
progression of the story.
Osterkamp’s background as a comedy
writer is readily apparent with the nice
balance between the humor and the serious
making this a good choice for a fun beach
read. I believe it’s safe to assume that
Osterkamp has many more stories to tell
and I look forward to seeing her evolution
as an author.